So, today is the last full day of summer staff training and I have my training plan for the next 9 weeks in place.  Training during the summer will be challenging, but I will have more time for it than I have had during staff training.  The past 10 days have started with optional prayer at 7:30, and ended with our small groups usually around 10.  We always had 1 hour off…immediately after lunch.  This has been a less than ideal situation, making it impossible to get do all my workouts and get enough sleep.

In case it was not obvious, now is the time of year when I have the least amount of free time.  I basically wake up in the morning and then it’s go, go, go, until I fall into my bed at night.  I’m barely finding time to get in all my workouts, so writing about them on a blog is challenging.

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Today I made my running debut.  It was pretty good, for me anyway.  Especially if you consider that I’ve never been much of a runner.  I would do some running for lacrosse in college, but that was a joke compared to my ski training now.  I’ve come to embrace running since I’ve become a skier, but that hasn’t helped out too much.  The most I’ve run seriously is 3 or 4 times a week, but even that was rare. 

When I was younger I used to say my favorite season was spring.  I now realize that what I actually meant was, “the end of spring when it starts to feel like summer.”  Of course, I was just as sad as the next cross country skier to see the snow melting.  But, once it did, and winter was obviously over, I became very impatient to skip this whole spring thing and move right on to summer.   The beginning of spring might actually be my least favorite time of year.   I hate cold rain. 

Obviously I have not been attending to my blog.  I simply have had no time.  But I have been up to a lot of really sweet things.

Okay, so I’m totally sweating today.  But as the snow is melting, it seems like a good time to reflect on the past year.

Disaster has recently struck my life.  A series of events have recently turned sour.  The only conclusion I can reach is that this will be the low point in my training year.  I can only look forward to (some) things getting better.  Here is a list of all the silly things that have happened to me (including the silver lining) …

Okay, so I didn’t really race the Birkie this weekend.  I did race the Korte, but I figured people would be more likely to read this if they thought I was writing about the Birkie.  After all, Bjorn Daehlie did ski the Birkie.  I had a few moments last week where I seriously considered skipping the Korte and getting myself to Main Street so I could witness the Birkie finish.